Race & Racism by

Prompt

alyssalyons1 — 2023-10-11 13:37:30 UTC

Respond to one of the following questions (and be sure to draw from class discussions and/or readings in your response):

1. What is race? What is racism? What is the relationship between the two?

2. How is race a social construct?

3. How does racism adapt, evolve, and mutate over time?

Kadiatou Drame

2023-10-16 16:47:14 UTC

Race is a construct of society that intentionally separates people into different categories based on specific traits, including physical characteristics especially complexion color ancestry, culture connection, history of culture, and ethnicity according to Wikipedia.Ethnic groups are categorized by their race.Rasism is the idea that there are different kinds of people called races that can exist alongside one another, that there is a causal relationship between inherited physical characteristics and traits of personality, intelligence, ethics, and other cultural and behavioral characteristics, and that some races are inherently better than others. Racism adapts overtime with its contiuation of overpassing new norms and rules fighting for justice.

Danna Carmona

2023-10-30 03:41:06 UTC

Race is a social construct because it's a type of human classification system. It was invented by us humans as a way to define physical differences between people, but has more often been used as a tool for oppression and violence. examples of social constructs include beauty standards, gender roles, and the idea of marriage. According to a website called, Very Well Mind.

How does racism adapt, evolve, and mutate over time?- Alina Cruz

alinahc173 — 2023-10-30 18:55:21 UTC

Racism adapted over time by a lot of people making racism into a regular act such as being prejudiced towards other races that aren't theirs and in some races being prejudiced against their own kind. Racism evolves over time by different generations continuing to be prejudiced against other races and their own. Racism mutates over time by individuals choosing to stop the cycle of being prejudiced against one another. For example, there have always been light-skinned baby dolls in the toy sections, and now there of every skin tone. But you still see that light-skinned baby dolls have better hair, hairstyles, and outfits than brown and dark baby dolls.

Gael Ramos

2023-11-01 16:44:10 UTC

Race is a social construct in the way that it was made to separate people by class, color, ethnicity and to put labels on people when we are all a part of the same race, the human race.

Dariel Miranda

2023-11-01 16:52:08 UTC

Race is a social construct that has been used to separate people and build a sense of superiority against other races. Because of the social construct of race, the idea of racism is derived from it. The relationship between the two is that race is a byproduct of racism and is intertwined.

Cynthia Ostorva

2023-11-02 02:07:26 UTC

Race is a social construct. This is shown throughout history as humans made the social construct and normalized it. It was used to separate people into different social classes based on their ethnicity. These social classes would later define people's status in life and shape how their lives would be. This social construct would also lead POC to be faced with different forms of discrimination, violence, and oppression by society. Race would also determine where people of color would live, work, and attend school.

Laisha Frias R #2

laishafrias77 — 2023-11-04 03:26:41 UTC

Race is a social construct. Race is a term used to classify humans from different backgrounds. In reality, the only race that we as humans belong to is the human race but as time passed it became a social construct since over time people became engrossed in it and used it as a form to discriminate against other humans.

Anjali Latchman- Question two

anjlatchie — 2023-11-16 19:43:27 UTC

Race is a social construct because throughout history many people have used social construct to classify people into different categories. Race was used to separate many individuals by their social class, color, backgrounds. Overtime, race was used as a form to discriminate others and that led to many issues.

Haylee Mendez

2023-11-25 22:42:28 UTC

Race is a social construct because it was made by us as a classification system. The intention was to use race to classify people and be able to define the physical differences of people. However over time it has been used for violence and oppression. Leaving some newer generations to follow in the past of older generations discriminating others as well as being prejudice.

Janeidy Perez #2

2023-11-29 17:01:47 UTC

Race is a social construct because it is a classification scheme created by humans. Although it was initially developed to identify physical features between individuals, it is now more frequently used as a weapon of oppression and violence.

Mamadou Diallo

2023-11-29 20:02:03 UTC

Race is the demographics that a person acquires based on the person's background, appearance, environment, and ancestry. It categorizes all people of life so that diversity is better acknowledged. Racism is when a specific race that has an advantage over other races and abuses their authority towards other races. Their relation between one another is that the act of categorizing human beings to better differentiate one another is what transforms the fact of differences, into ideologies of superiority within certain races. Hence, if people were to look past race, and the differences that every human being acquires, racism and the belief of being better because of race would be irradicated.

Nancy Reyes

nancyreyes0407 — 2023-12-13 18:56:56 UTC

Race is a social construct that is used to classify people and race divide human populations into groups, often based on their physical appearance, social factor and cultural background. When we talk about racism we are talking about a type of discrimination, the one that occurs when a person or group of people feels hatred towards others for having different characteristics or qualities, such as skin color, language or place of birth.

Lemuel Garcia

2023-12-17 14:01:14 UTC

Race is a social construct that was meant to separate people within a society or we could say race is an aspect that categorizes a group of people, race can become marginalizing because when someone if from a different race, people tend to have stereotypes of these groups of people and end up treating everyone on from that race the same way.

David Shalamov #3

2023-12-20 23:15:49 UTC

Racism adapts and mutates overtime by becoming less and less frequent in more populated and diverse areas. In new york we are all in one large melting pot so you would see almost every race and color on your way to work. people would get used to each other and their methods, customs, cultures overtime so racism would start subsiding as people are assimilated more and more. Racism is definitly changing and the new generation are seeing it as a wrong and old way of thinking. Once the older generation dies out racism is going to be extremely minimal as compared to previous years/decades

Andrea Guevara

andreaguevararecarte — 2023-12-21 23:55:16 UTC

Race is a term that was developed to categorize humans into groups based off of multiple contributing factors such as physical and social attributes. Racism is a construct that was brought up feeling or thinking that a certain ethnic group and race is inferior by another group of people. Discrimination is what has been developed between race and racism, unfortunately both are constructs that were adapted by humans.